Day 8: The Discipline of Meditation
Read it: Joshua 1:8 NLT, Psalm 1:2 NLT, 1 Timothy 4:15 KJV, 1 Timothy 4:15 NLT
Live it:
One of our favorite books at Focus Church is Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster. This book teaches us this incredible truth: “We don’t try to be like Jesus. We train to be like Jesus.”
When we hear the word meditation, many of us have a picture of someone with his/her fingers crossed and eyes closed. This is a form of Easter meditation, which is not biblical. The biblical form of meditation is much different.
In his book, Richard Foster says that “Prayer is the interactive relationship we have with God about what we and God are working on together. Christian meditation is the listening side of this interactive relationship. God speaks and teaches; we hear and obey.”
As you read these passages, let them sink deep inside your soul, meditate on them, and give them attentiveness all day long.
Ps. James